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12th, and it is easy to predict that he will be as great a success here as he has been elsewhere.

TOWN EDITION. Tissued at 4.35 p. m. ] New AdvertisementsWANTED— One or Two good CARPENTERS. Apply, at one, to Ashburton Saleyards Co., Tinwald. Monday next being NEW YEAR’S DAY, The Gcabdian will not be published. W. H. ZO T 'CH, Propriefer, HRENOL 0 G Y. PROFESSOR LIO MEDO has NOW ARRIVED, and will shortly open an Office in East street. A course of LECTURES will in a few days be given in the Town Hall. Present address—Quill’s Hotel. 30d O T I 0 E.

JJORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The MONTHLY MEETING of the above Society will be held on. TUESDAY, January 2, at Mr Jones’ Upper Room, at 8 p.m. Business. —To arrange for collecting yearly subscriptions, and general business; also, for reading of papers by Messrs Harrison, Simmonds, and J. Sealy. S. E. POYNTZ, 30d Hon. Sec. SOUTH RAKAIA ATHLETIC SPORTS. Owing to the inclemency of the weather on Boxing Day, the above SPORTS had to bo Postponed. The Committee have decided to carry out the balance of the Programme on New Year’s Day. Programme. (1.) Old Men’s Race (2.) Vaulting with the pole (3.) Half Mile Race for men (4.) Sack Race (5.) Three Legged Race, 150 yards (6.) Quoit Match (7.) Girls under 14 years, 150 yards race (8.) Boys under 16 years, 250 yards race (9.) Boys under 14 years, 150 yards race (10.) Boys under 10 years, lOOyardsrace Also about £5 worth of Toys to he competed for by Children. All events confined to residents in the South Rakaia Road Board District, All protests, with a deposit of ss, must be lodged with the Secretary, to be forfeited if protest not sustained. All protests to be decided by the Working Committee. Three entries or no competition. Entrance fees—Old men, and boys under 16 years races, Is. Boys under 12 years and women’s races, free. All other events 2a 6d. ARTHUR J. COX, Hon. Sec. Rakaia, Dec. 29, 1882.

TENDERS will be received up to SATURDAY, January 6th, for ALTERATIONS to STORE at Tinwald. Plana and specifications to be seen at the office of JOSEPH CLARK, d3O Ashburton. STRAYED on Wednesday last, from my section, N.E. Belt, TWO GREY GEESE. Finder will oblige by informing me. J. H. Maynard Ashburton burough council. Notice is hereby given that Mr JOHN CRUM has been appointed SCAVENGER for the Borough of Ashburton. CHARLES BEADDKLL, Town Clerk. Borough Council Office, December 30th, 1882.

TINWALD. SATURDAY, JANUARY 6. MR THOMAS BULLOCK has received instructions from the Trustee in the Estate of Mr Donald Stewart to Sell by Public Auction, at the Bazaar, Burnett street, on Saturday, January 6, T.S. Nos. 517, 518, 519, 536, 537, 538, Tinwald, together with a FOUR-ROOMED Dwelling-house Erected thereon. Persons desirous of purchasing property in Tinwald would do well to attend this sale. Sale at 1.30 o’clock. 30d T. BULLOCK, Auctioneer.

WANTED KNOWN—That lam selling Yenus Nailrod at 6a per lb.; Yenus Twist, 5s 6d per lb.; Yenus Navy Twist, 6s per lb.; Tricopherous, la 3d per bottle. Enos’ Fruit Salt, 3a 3d per bottle. Also, Toys of every description, consisting of Dolls, Trumpets, Toy Drums,, Tambourines, Wheelbarrows, Carts, Guns, etc., etc. F. Clark, EAST STREET. slB Meetings. SOMERS ROAD DISTRICT TAKE NOTICE—The Mount Somers Road Board propose to CLOSE the ROAD running from the north-east corner of R.S. 31695 to the southernmost boundary of R.S. 32249, near Messrs Gould and Cameron’s, Springfield, under Section 4, Public Works Act, 1880. Plans of the above, showing the road to be closed (colored green), are open for inspection at the Road Board Office, Mount Somers. A PUBLIC MEETING of ratepayers will be held at the Road Board Office, Mount Somers, on January 2nd, 1883, to decide whether the above road shall be closed. A. E. PEACHE, 9d Chairman. Amusements.

M E T -- v A Concert and E N. BaU Will be held in the Railway Goods Shed, Mothven, in aid of the Library Funds, on NEW YEAR’S NIGHT, after the Sports. Doors open at 7.30 p.m. JAMES MURRAY, d 29 Secretary.

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